Interests: how we make learning meaningful & change possible; how identities, literacies, and technologies move us thru places/spaces. Views entirely my own.

Joined July 2009
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Facilitated by @MiaZamoraPhD @xolotl @yasser_tammer @wavinya66 , Theresa Destrebecq & me. Join us in May!
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‼️Reminder to apply for the Collaborative Learning Community Grants! Apply NOW: tr.ee/6zxF51iAAs
🌟 Enhance student engagement and transform learning spaces at UT Austin! Apply for a CLC Grant and receive up to $2,500 for collaborative projects between instructors and students. 📅 Deadline: May 13, 2024. 👉Apply Here: tr.ee/6zxF51iAAs
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Part of the @IC2Institute team meeting with community leaders in Uvalde, TX - delivering recommendations for charting a more resilient, robust economic future. Thank you, @noelbusch and @MonicaMnzMtz for your caring and inspired leadership. #WellBeingEconomy #TeamUvalde
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📖Want to make an impact in education?🌎 We have partnered with UT's Texas Leadership Education and Development Department to hire summer interns. Career services spread the word, and UT students apply by Feb. 16 and start making a difference!🌟 Apply👉 tr.ee/_OT-nPZzEJ
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🎆 New Year, New PTF think Tanks!🧠 We are excited to welcome Dr. Ashley Castleberry, who will discuss how to use educational research studies to capture and assess student learning. 📚🔍 Rsvp here 👉tr.ee/HYiXtG7Ofi
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celebrating #PublicDomainDay... right now! this year I celebrated by making a little book that you can read at the @InternetArchive TALES OF 1928: A Selection of Folktales, Fables, and Legends from Books Published in 1928 archive.org/details/tales-of… yay for yodeling the #PublicDomain
Do you have your ticket for tomorrow's Public Domain Day Party at the Internet Archive? We're throwing our doors open from 6pm-8pm to celebrate the works of art from 1928 that are now in the public domain, like Steamboat Willie! 🎟️ Register now: eventbrite.com/e/public-doma…
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🧵1/We are excited to announce that FREE REGISTRATION is now open for the Un-Bioed: Radically Re-Imagining Black Women's Lives is now open! Here is a sneak peek of what those who are coming will get:
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this is BEAUTIFUL! making sure to ping @Bali_Maha @MiaZamoraPhD and @CTL_UT for this powerful essay A WOMANIST APPROACH TO CARE-FULL FEEDBACK by @ameenalpayne and @JanMcArthur teachersgoinggradeless.com/b… thank you, @TG2Chat!!!
📣NEW POST!!! @ameenalpayne & @JanMcArthur assert that neither assessment nor learning are neutral or benign practices. Care-full feedback aims to contest societal stereotypes, microaggressions, and Othering imposed on marginalized students. @tg2chat ctt.ec/rS6bF+
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"The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time. Be present. Be kind. Love more. Love now.” ~Unknown
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Free resource! Check out our new book featuring a foreword by Peter Gray & conclusion by Alison James with over 60 contributors’ playful interventions. download your free copy today! #playinhighereducation #academia #highereducation #criticalpedagogy press.etc.cmu.edu/books/prof…
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Pedagogical Archipelago 1*8, is a network of autonomous but interconnected spaces in a neighboring Solar System, as the furthest outpost of the most advanced universities and colleges on Planet Earth to search for solutions to the galaxy’s empathy, play, and imagination crisis...
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3. What are relationships like within PA 1*8?
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📢Fall Approaches 🍂 On Thursday, we're speaking about how to apply generative A.I. to your assignment design. You'll learn how to create assignments that acknowledge the presence of A.I. in order to be intentional about its use. RSVP Here👉tr.ee/fOnkzB1Oc5
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more images and videos at the website: FROM THE DEEP: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson africa.si.edu/exhibitions/cu… & you can learn more in this article in Smithsonian Magazine smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni… 2/2 pinging @MythicAfricans: WATER SPIRITS! if you can go see this, GO!
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